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δυσώδης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσώδης δυσώδες

Structure: δυσωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/zw

Sense

  1. ill-smelling

Examples

  • ἐπὶ ταύτῃ φέρων εἰσ τὸ μέσον ἐπεχόρευσε σαπέρδησ μέγασ ὑπό τι δυσώδησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4519)
  • πώλυποί τε σηπίαι τε καὶ ποταναὶ τευθίδεσ χἀ δυσώδησ βολβιτὶσ γραῖαί τ’ ἐριθακώδεεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1074)
  • τί γὰρ σφόδρα δυσώδησ λείπεται; (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 68:1)
  • πῶσ, ὦ θεοῖσ ἔχθιστε, νῦν οὐκ εἰμί σοι χωλόσ, δυσώδησ; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 4:14)
  • ὁ δὲ πλησίον τόποσ ἔμπυροσ ὢν καὶ δυσώδησ ποιεῖ τὰ σώματα τῶν περιοικούντων ἐπίνοσα καὶ παντελῶσ ὀλιγοχρόνια. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 98 1:11)

Synonyms

  1. ill-smelling

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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